On Monday morning 138 of New Hampshire's best male golfers will
converge on Stonebridge Country Club in Goffstown to compete for the New
Hampshire State Amateur Championship. The event will run from July 14th to July
19th.

Of the 138 player field,
41 were exempt from pre-qualification and the remaining 97 played their way in
at seven different stroke play qualifiers earlier in the season.

The champion will be
determined by playing 36-holes of stroke play on Monday and Tuesday to determine
the match play field of 64. From there it is 18-hole single elimination match
play head to head with each match played out until a winner is determined. If
necessary, any matches that are all square after 18 holes will be decided by a
hole-by-hole playoff. Any ties for the field of 64 will be played off on
Tuesday at the conclusion of the 36 -hole medal play rounds.

Defending champion Mike Martel of
Crotched Mountain Country Club is in the field as are other former champions Joe
Leavitt (2012), Jim Cilley (2011), Nick MacDonald (2010), Dan Arvanitis (2001),
Craig Steckowych (1990,1998), and Phil Pleat (1981,1985,1997).

The New Hampshire Golf
Association has been administering the New Hampshire Amateur Championship at
golf courses throughout the state since 1901.